Francis Wheen Reads from Strange Days Indeed

In his new book, Strange Days Indeed (Public Affairs), Francis Wheen examines the paranoia of the 1970s—a decade when the delusions of leaders such as Richard Nixon, Idi Amin, and Mao Zedong pervaded ordinary people and everyday life. In this exclusive audio excerpt, Wheen describes the sexual paranoia in the United States, where feminism and the passage of Roe v. Wade inspired irrational dread and resentment in men, many of whom had recently returned from the Vietnam War unprepared for the shift in attitudes on the home front.